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> Pay for work not time spent on the computer. Pay for the results, not for the work or time spent.

• brailsafe 6y ago
  Hell no. If someone hires me to do work, it's on them whether or not it was a good idea in the first place. Unless and only unless the risk was explicitly agreed upon. "You owe me $50000" "But I didn't make $50000 from the thing I asked you to build" "Maybe you should have thought about that before you agreed to pay me to build it, based on your idea."
  • StavrosK 6y ago
    "Results" here are "delivering a thing", not "profiting from the thing".
    • MaxBarraclough 6y ago
      Isn't that what work is referring to here? I suppose work can refer to either the effort or to the deliverable.
      • StavrosK 6y ago
        I think spurdoman77 refers to effort when he says "work". To me, one clearly should be paid based on the deliverable.
• poulsbohemian 6y ago
  Or more specifically, pay for what you say you'd pay for in the contract. If it was a time and materials contract, pay the man for his T&M. I've spent way too much of my career dealing with nasty clients who signed a T&M agreement and then stopped paying when they didn't get the next Facebook / Google / Amazon. Not my effing problem that their expectations weren't in the realm of reality and the contract was based on time units not their pie-in-the-sky dreams. If they'd wanted a contract based on their pipe dreams, chances are I wouldn't have signed it OR I would have put in verbiage to make sure they couldn't screw me in the end.